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#36 - [The Chapman Series, Pt. 1] Cognitivism, Representationalism, and Rationalism

Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren

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The Single Celld Organism Is a Single Cell, Right?

The single celld organism doesn't even depend on being able to model anything at all. It's just a matter of having its embodiment reflecting certain successful patterns of interaction, you know, like it is the mechanism that translates this from the sensory and put into the motor output. That's what its body is. Yes? Cool. So you can just sort of move from that very simple case on down the evolutionary tree to more complex organisms until you get to us. And we have this thing that,you know, we're alling abstract cognition. Now, th the weird tendency is to look at that and say, oh, our abstract cognition, you know,. everything else that we do that

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